The Glenbow Museum is Western Canada's largest museum, with over 93,000 square feet (8,600 m²) of exhibition space in more than 20 galleries, showcasing a selection of the Glenbow's collection of over a million objects. Western Canada is a geographic region of Canada, also known as simply the West, generally considered to be west of the province of Ontario. ... The National Gallery in London, a famous museum. ...

The Glenbow-Alberta Institute was formed in 1966, when Eric Harvie donated his vast historical collection to the people of Alberta. Located in downtown Calgary across from the Calgary Tower, the Institute maintains the Glenbow Museum, open to the public, which houses not only its museum collections, but also a very extensive art collection, library, and archives. At the present time, the third floor of the museum is undergoing major renovations, therefore many of the galleries are closed. A new exhibit illustrating Alberta's history is scheduled to open in 2007. The Glenbow Museum's CEO, Michael P. Robinson, is a member of the Order of Canada. 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Motto: Fortis et liber (Latin: Strong and free) Official languages English Flower Wild rose Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant-Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ralph Klein (PC) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 28 6 Area Total  - Land  - Water    (% of total)  Ranked 6th 661,848 km² 642,317 km² 19... View of downtown Calgary from Princes Island. ... Calgary is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. ... Calgary Tower Calgary Towers Glass Floor The Calgary Tower is a 190 metre free standing tower in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. ... Renovation is the process of restoring or improving a structure. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means Desiring a better country. ...

The Glenbow Museum will soon be displaying an exhibit called "Egypt, Greece and Rome: Art of the Ancient Mediterranean World". The exhibit was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. This show will begin June 30, 2006.

Museum

The museum has four primary collections:.

• Cultural History
• Ethnology
• Military History
• Mineralogy

Cultural history

The Glenbow cultural history collection contains over 100,000 objects originating from many corners of the world, providing insight into the life in Western Canada from the late 1800s to the present day. Items in the collection reveal how people made a living, worshipped, and were governed, what they did to relax, how they dressed and ate, and how family mementos helped create a home in a new land. The cultural history collection also includes important holdings of Alberta pottery, Western Canadian folk studies, northern explorations, numismatics, pressed glass, and textiles. Cultural history, is a literal translation of the German term Kulturgeschichte and at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. ... Events and Trends Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). ... Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ... Numismatics (ancient Greek: ) is the scientific study of money and its history in all its varied forms. ... Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colours as shown in this ball from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Ethnology

The Glenbow ethnology collection contains approximately 48,000 items made or used by the indigenous peoples of North America, particularly the Northern Plains, as well as the Northwest Coast, Arctic, and Subarctic regions, and select regions of South America, Africa, Oceania, and Asia. Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... Northern Plains is a region in the state of Missouri. ... Regional definitions vary from source to source. ... The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border The Arctic is the area around the Earths North Pole. ... The subarctic is a region in the Northern Hemisphere immediately south of the true Arctic and covering much of Canada and Siberia, the north of Scandinavia, northern Mongolia and the extreme north of Heilongjiang. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... Oceania is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands – mostly islands but often including Australia – in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ...

Military history

The Glenbow's military collection is the largest and most diverse in Western Canada, with 26,000 items, spanning many countries over nearly five centuries, particularly European, Asian, and North American firearms and edged weapons. Also well represented are Japanese arms and armour, and Canadian medals, orders, and decorations. World map showing Europe Political map Europe is one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... A firearm is a kinetic energy weapon that fires either a single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant. ... A personal weapon is a weapon that can be carried and employed by a single person, although their use may be restricted to specialist members of attack or defense teams. ... The word arms may refer to: The arm is anatomically the part of the body extending from the shoulder to the elbow. ... A hoplite wearing (only) a helmet, breastplate greaves and a shield. ... A Medal is a word used for various types of compact objects: a wearable medal awarded by an authority government for services redered, especially to a country (such as Armed force service); strictly speaking this only refers to a medal of coin-like appearance, but informally the word also refers... // Order may refer to: Religious Holy Orders, the rite or sacrament in which clergy are ordained The monastic orders, originating with Anthony the Great and Benedict of Nursia from circa 300 the military orders of the crusades the various chivalric orders established since the 14th century Honors Order (decoration) Legal... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Mineralogy

The Glenbow's extensive mineralogy collection includes minerals and precious and semi-precious stones from around the world, particularly Western Canada. Specimens were selected for exhibition value as well as mineralogical significance, and the 'Treasures of the Mineral World' exhibition is popular with geologists, rock hounds, and visitors of all ages seeking to enjoy the depth and diversity of the Earth's minerals. The exhibit includes minerals that glow in the dark, a display of Fool's Gold, a piece of the Earth's oldest rock, and rock crystals in every colour of the rainbow. Mineralogy is an earth science that involves the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. ... A selection of gemstone pebbles made by tumbling rough rock with abrasive grit, in a rotating drum. ... A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth. ... Rockhounding is the recreational collecting of rocks and/or mineral specimens from their natural environment. ... The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, is iron disulfide, FeS2. ...

Asian collection

In addition, the Glenbow has a substantial Asian collection on semi-permanent loan from the Bumper Development Corporation Ltd., including reliefs, masks, paintings and sculptures in stone, wood, and metal from the Buddhist and Hindu cultures of Asia, from the first century to the 18th century. A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... (1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century - other centuries) The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 to 99. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...

Art collection

The Glenbow's art collection comprises 28,000 works, mainly dating from the 19th century to the present, primarily historical, modern, and contemporary work from or pertaining to the northwest of North America. The collection contains an outstanding selection of landscape painting, a renowned Canadian prints collection including works from modernist printmaker Sybil Andrews, First Nations and Inuit Art, American Illustration, and Western and Wildlife Art. Works from other parts of the world provide a broader national and international frame of reference. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Printing is an industrial process for reproducing copies of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ... Sybil Andrews (1898 - 1993) was a British-born Canadian printmaker best known for her modernist linocuts. ... Carved mask in Vancouver First Nations is a term of ethnicity used in Canada. ... Inuit (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, singular Inuk / ᐃᓄᒃ) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic coasts of Siberia, Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Labrador and Greenland (see Eskimo). ... An illustration of a character from a story; also, an illustration of illustrations An Illustration is a visualisation such as drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. ...

Library

The Glenbow's library contains 100,000 books, periodicals, newspapers, maps, and pamphlets with relevance to Western Canada, from the time buffalo roamed the plains, to the coming of the railroad and settlement of the West, to political, economic and social events in Alberta today. The collection includes rare illustrated equestrian literature from the 15th century, school books from one-room school houses, and numerous volumes and other material related to the Museum's collections of military history, ethnology, mineralogy and art. Binomial name Bison bison Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies B. b. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... Motto: Fortis et liber (Latin: Strong and free) Official languages English Flower Wild rose Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant-Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ralph Klein (PC) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 28 6 Area Total  - Land  - Water    (% of total)  Ranked 6th 661,848 km² 642,317 km² 19... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Eurasian nomads. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

Archives

The Glenbow archives are one of Canada's largest non-governmental repositories and a major research centre for historians, writers, students, genealogists, and the media. They comprise an extremely large collection of archival records of individuals, families, organizations and businesses from Western Canada and includes 3,500 metres of textual records, over a million photographs, 350 hours of film footage, and 1,500 sound recordings. The Archives range from the 1870s to the 1990s, documenting the social, political and economic history of Western Canada, particularly Calgary and Southern Alberta. Areas of specialty include First Nations, Métis genealogy, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, ranching and agriculture, the petroleum industry, politics, labour, women, and business. Unique collections in the archives include catalogs, cookbooks, records of land sales by the Canadian Pacific Railway, maps, school yearbooks, extensive genealogical resources, and an excellent collection of resources for the study of Métis genealogy. // Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... Motto: Heart of the new west Area: 712. ... Carved mask in Vancouver First Nations is a term of ethnicity used in Canada. ... The Métis (pronounced MAY tee, IPA: , in French or , in Métis ) are one of three recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada. ... Genealogy is the study and tracing of family pedigrees. ... Royal Canadian Mounted Police heraldic badge. ... Ranching is the raising of cattle or sheep on rangeland, although one might also speak of ranching with regard to less common livestock such as elk, bison or emu. ... Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario Petroleum (from Greek petra – rock and elaion – oil or Latin oleum – oil ) or crude oil, sometimes colloquially called black gold, is a thick, dark brown or greenish liquid. ... Politics is a process by which decisions are made within groups. ... In classical economics and all micro-economics labour is a measure of the work done by human beings and is one of three factors of production, the others being land and capital. ... Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ... Wall Street, Manhattan In economics, business refers to the social science of managing people to organize and maintain collective productivity toward accomplishing particular creative and productive goals. ... The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR; AAR reporting marks CP, CPAA, CPI), known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. ...

External links

• The Glenbow site
• "Cosmic Quest: Discovering Astronomy Through Science and Culture"; an online exhibition developed in collaboration with 18 museums and institutions in Canada, Australia, and the US
• "Perspectives"; an online exhibition developed in collaboration with the Virtual Museum of Canada
• Online exhibit on Niitoy-yiss (tipi) of the Nitsitapii (Blackfoot) people, based on Glenbow collection, in French and English
• Glenbow Library and Archives Search Menu